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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2017.05-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Freedatensuppe</a></h1>
29 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
33 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on system administrators.
34 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system.
35 As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
37 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
41 <li>Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system.
42 grml-live (the build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run.
43 Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet.
44 Please <a href="/bugs/">let us know</a> if you should stumble upon any such issues.
46 <li>New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
47 If you're using the Grml repositories (<a href="https://deb.grml.org/">deb.grml.org</a> please make sure to use a current version of the grml-debian-keyring package.
48 The GPG key is also available via <a href="https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg">https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg</a>.
50 <li>Switched from vlock to physlock for console/desktop locking
52 <li>Usage of net.ifnames=0 as default boot option
58 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
62 <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISOs to USB devices):
65 <li>Support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems
66 <li>New option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device
67 <li>New option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices
70 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
73 <li>Systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class
74 <li>Provide wayback machine via "-w <date>" to install Debian packages from specific date
75 <li>Add support for netboot.xyz
76 <li>Add SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes
77 <li>Generate /etc/issue with Grml release information
78 <li>Switch from aptitude to apt usage for software installation
79 <li>Output to "./grml" in current working directory by default
80 <li>If locales-all package is installed skip locales generation
81 <li>GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to vboxsf group
82 <li>New script 94-update-smart-drivedb to update smartmontools' drive database
83 <li>templates: use net.ifnames=0 by default
88 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
91 <li>Support options --force + --quiet for usage with cron
92 <li>Provide `acpi --everything` output in file `acpi.everything`
93 <li>ip: also store table specific route information
98 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a>:
101 <li>Fall back to journalctl with llog + tlog aliases if /var/log/syslog doesn't exist
102 <li>Make some ambiguous aliases optional via GRML_NO_APT_ALIASES + GRML_NO_SMALL_ALIASES
103 <li>Sync zsh-lookup with its upstream repository
104 <li>Add more robustness to completion caching setup
105 <li>Drop 'setopt nonomatch' configuration
106 <li>Rewrite large parts of persistent dirstack handling
107 <li>No longer explicitly set SHELL
108 <li>Add support for `fetch' in simple-extract()
109 <li>Several updates to the bk function, incl. option '-ra' to removal all (even hidden) backups
110 <li>Drop j alias (used for 'jobs -l')
115 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a>:
118 <li>Support Debian stretch and use Debian stretch as the new default release
119 <li>Provide EFI support via --efi <device> option
120 <li>Drop sysfsutils from default software package list
121 <li>Don't generate rootfs entry in /etc/fstab if we don't know its UUID
122 <li>Don't fiddle around with /etc/hosts
123 <li>Honor GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true and don't set root=UUID then
124 <li>Export TARGET_HOSTNAME before running post-scripts
125 <li>Disable '^metadata_csum' feature when creating ext filesystem for jessie and older Debian releases
126 <li>Ensure that grub-pc/install_devices is pointing to the requested device
127 <li>Use parted to create partition table
128 <li>Rename --scripts to --post-scripts for consistency, accordingly disable SCRIPTS by default, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS
129 <li>Provide new option --remove-configs to delete grml-debootstrap configuration files from installed system
130 <li>Ensure that grub-pc is installed in VMs even when using --nopackages
131 <li>Provide hostname to pre-scripts by setting up /etc/hostname
132 <li>Make it more friendly to install on non-Debian distributions
133 <li>Drop contrib + non-free from default COMPONENTS, support --contrib + -non-free cmdline options
134 <li>Install firmware-linux only when non-free is among the COMPONENTS
135 <li>Use full fingerprint instead of short GPG key ids for Grml repository
142 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
145 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.9.17</b>.</li>
146 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
151 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
152 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
153 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2017.05/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
154 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05(-rc1).</p>
158 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 5th of May 2017.
159 63 packages have been removed, and these 64 new packages
160 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
163 apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs cpp-6
164 distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
165 firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
166 firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
167 gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
168 graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache
169 initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
170 lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
171 perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock pinentry-curses
172 policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5 python3.5-minimal rake
173 ruby-deep-merge ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet
174 ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen
175 ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils
176 systemd systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
177 vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
178 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd
181 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
184 alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
185 gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
186 insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
187 netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
188 python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
189 python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
190 python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
191 python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
192 ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
193 sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
194 xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
195 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
196 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
197 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
198 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
199 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
200 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
201 xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
202 xserver-xorg-video-trident
205 <h3>Known issues</h3>
207 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
209 <h3>Download Grml 2017.05-rc1</h3>
211 <p>Grml 2017.05-rc1 can be downloaded from
212 <a href="/grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
216 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
217 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
218 the release please check <a
219 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
220 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
221 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
223 <a name="thanks"></a>
226 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
228 Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler,
238 Christian Hofstaedtler,
253 Nicolas Braud-Santoni,
264 for their contributions.</p>
266 <h3>More Information</h3>
268 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
269 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
270 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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